Word: stroker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swimming team will find it harder to make replacements, but it is ready for a good try at it, says Howin Stepp, the coach. The Tigers lost Dick Hough, their record-holding breast stroker, but Ned Parke, who competed in the freestyle events last year--and did very well at them, too--may be rushed into the breach. He originally was a breast stroker, holder of the national interscholastic title at 100 yards while at Lawrenceville. But there are also two Sophomores ready for this event-Bill price and Stewart Pach...
...swimmers lost Paul Williams, sprinter, for two years individual high scorer in the league; Jim Daugherty, a very promising breast stroker, and Charles Smith, another sprinter. Frank Gosling, a diver, left college to go to war with the British Army. But the Quakers have come up with several good sophomores to take their places, notably Daniel Freeman, a New York boy who is as fast now in the 50 as Williams was; Joe Tyson, a back stroke; and John Houck, who will compete in the distance events...
...swimming two tortuous laps, Accordingly, so that no alumnus would return to his wife or graduate school or employer too fatigued for his own good, the Alumni fielded a relay team of eight men, each of whom swam a Tollicking one-lap race. Several divers and a breast stroker seem to have found their way into the line-up. Ulen's boys won the event, nevertheless, and in record time. but of course no record is valid under such bizarre conditions of competition...
...watching the squad closely. Among the candidates are free-stylers Darcy Curwen of Exeter, whose older brother, Jim, is a sprint star on the Varsity team, William Stires of Lehman High, Canton, Ohio, and Frank Gorman of University School, Cleveland. William Drucker, former New Trier Township High back-stroker, and Colin Houston of Exeter, a breastroker, are other aspirants for the '43 squad...
Gamecocks kill each other with thrusts of their legs. There are two types of fighters: the shuffler (who strikes as rapidly as his legs can move) and the single-stroker (who waits for an opening, then knocks out his opponent with a well-placed stab). Some matches are over in five seconds, others last 45 minutes; but a really game cock never quits until he can crow over his dead opponent-or is dead himself...